A cysteine-containing truncated apo A-I variant associated with HDL deficiency.

doi:10.1161/01.atv.16.12.1416

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A cysteine-containing truncated apo A-I variant associated with HDL deficiency.

Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology - 1 Dec 1996

Moriyama K, Sasaki J, Takada Y, Matsunaga A, Fukui J, Albers J J, Arakawa K

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We identified a 50-year-old Japanese woman with a novel mutation in the apolipoprotein (apo) A-I gene causing high-density lipoprotein (HDL) deficiency. The patient had extremely low HDL cholesterol and apo A-I levels (0.14 mmol/L and 0.8 mg/dL, respectively) but no evidence of coronary heart dis...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Apolipoprotein A-I
Base Sequence
Cysteine
Female
Humans
Lipoproteins, HDL
Middle Aged
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Pedigree

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